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Determinants of teacher value-added in public primary schools : evidence from administrative panel data

Tanaka, Ryūichi; Bessho, Shun-ichiro; Kawamura, Akira; … - 2020

This study estimates teacher value-added (TVA) for language arts and mathematics test scores of students in public primary schools to investigate the empirical relationship between testscore TVA and observable traits and promotions of teachers. Our empirical strategy employs Chetty, Friedman,...

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Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools

Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on educational production. However, the blossoming of the...

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Whether to Hire Local Contract Teachers? Trade-off Between Skills and Preferences in India.

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - Department of Economics, School of Business, Management … - 2011

and education. …

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Whether to Hire Local Contract Teachers? Trade-off Between Skills and Preferences in India

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2011

Whether to hire teachers locally on a contract basis, or via competitive examinations as government officials, is a major policy question in developing countries. We use a Discrete Choice Experiment to assess the job preferences of 700 future elementary school teachers in the state of...

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New Zealand Regions, 1986-2001: Education and Qualifications

Pool, Ian; Baxendine, Sandra; Cochrane, William; … - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2005

This paper investigates changes in patterns of education and the highest qualifications people gained over the period … 1986 to 2001 for the regions of New Zealand. Education is an essential element in the accumulation of human capital …. Factors analysed in this paper are highest qualification gained, early education participation, school retention and …

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Delayed graduation and university dropout: A review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

when the net returns to education expected ex ante are negative. Failure can also be taken as a signal of the real skills … of individuals who do not succeed to gain a higher level of education, The job search approach underlines the role of …

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Long-Term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood

Liang, Yinhe; Peng, Xiaobo; Sun, Meiping Aggie - 2024

This paper examines the long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring in early childhood. For this purpose, we evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development monitoring through routine health checkups for all...

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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes

Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022

Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates that the abolishment of compulsory religious education in Germany does … children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …

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The Effects of Financial Aid on Graduation and Labor Market Outcomes: New Evidence from Matched Education-Labor Data

Rattini, Veronica - 2022

Financial aid decreases the cost of acquiring additional education. By using Italian administrative and survey data on …

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Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China

Nikolov, Plamen; Hossain, Md Shahadath - 2022

Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation, rather than on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. To investigate how human capital depreciates over the life cycle, we examine how a newly introduced pension program, the National Rural...

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